Our Declining Education System

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which implement their own curriculum, set their own goals and have their
own requirements for teacher preparation. Combined with this is the fact that
we have lowered our expectations in these areas, thus we are not providing an
equal or quality education to all students across the country. The commission
findings generated recommendations to improve the content of education and raise
the standards of student achievement, particularly in testing, increase the time
spent on education and provide incentives to encourage more individuals to enter
the field of education as well as improving teacher preparation.
N.Y. State responded to these recommendations by first implementing the
Regents Action Plan; an eight year plan designed to raise the standards of
education. This plan changed the requirements for graduation by raising the
number of credits needed for graduation, raising the number of required core
curriculum classes such as social studies, and introduced technology ...

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to
challenge students to reach their full potential, rather than minimum competency.
In this regard, tracking of students is being eliminated so that all students
will be challenged, rather than just those who are gifted. Similarly, success
should be rewarded with recognition and incentives to further encourage progress
for districts, teachers and students while others who are not as accomplished
are provided remedial training or resources in order to help them achieve
success.
It is difficult to determine whether our country on the whole has responded
to the concerns that "A Nation at Risk" presented. Clearly though, N.Y. State
has taken measures over the last ten years to ...

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